A biplane used by Britain throughout the WWI, the Handley Page Type O was one of the largest aircraft ever designed when it ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

Bert O'Leary, who just celebrated his 100th birthday, shares the terror and drudgery of life as airman aboard a Vickers ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

During WWII, Britain planned to build an unsinkable aircraft carrier… out of ICE! Dubbed Project Habakkuk, this massive ...

During World War II, before the age of computer-generated aircraft engineering drawings, thousands of skilled draftsmen created tens of thousands of drawings for every aspect of every model of ...

The lightweight aircraft was equipped with a 950-horsepower engine, helping it reach speeds of 331 mph and a service ceiling of 32,810 feet. Entering service in 1940, the Focke-Wulf Fw190 was one ...

which was commissioned by the Imperial Japanese Army to design the aircraft, manufactured 1,342 of the trainers from 1941 to just before the end of World War II. The aircraft measured around 12 ...

The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black ...

By March of 2020, individual states had already started going into lockdown, and suddenly there were far more pressing matters to address than the fate of a few dozen teetering WWII aircraft.

On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after esc ...